MIT Press Has Released 297 Free eBooks, Most Published Very Recently

Cafe Society
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A little bit of everything.

https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access?tab=collection

A sample of titles:

The Stuff Games Are Made Of

Gradient Expectations: Structure, Origins, and Synthesis of Predictive Neural Networks

Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property

Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts

Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization

The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production

Remaking the American Dream: The Informal and Formal Transformation of Single-Family Housing Cities

Age of Auto Electric: Environment, Energy, and the Quest for the Sustainable Car

Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade

Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry

CBD: What Does the Science Say?

Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies

Global Fintech: Financial Innovation in the Connected World

Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly

Wine Economics

Sexual Consent

Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage: Toward an Archaeology of Modernism

Frank Lloyd Wright versus America: The 1930s

Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste Duc, and Vaudoyer

The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America

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I hadn’t heard about this. I’ll have to look into it.

I saw the “Frankenstein annotated for Scientists” at the MUT Press Bookstore a few years ago, and almost bought it. I have several annotated editions of the novel (including Leonard Wolf’s and Leslie Klinger’s), and this would be an interesting addition. I’m a big fan of the novel, and it’s all because of reading Wolf’s annotated edition. Before that I found the book a struggle.

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I see Street-Fighting Mathematics by Sanjoy Mahajan is on the list. I’ve read it and it’s excellent. It’s about outside-the-box mathematical thinking. It’s less rigorous but more practical than most math courses. There was also a companion MOOC (massive open online course) with video lectures by the author that I took years ago, but I can’t find the lectures anywhere online now.

I may read another title by the same author from the list: The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering

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Crap, it’s not like I don’t have enough to read. I like that the Board now gives counts for how many people followed each link. No prizes for guessing which title had the most.

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What do they have to sink their teeth into? IIRC, she was extremely vague about Victor’s creation process. No brain of the criminal, or anything like that. When the monster demands his mate, Victor gathers up all the paraphernalia he needs to make one, so no bubbling vats or tilting tables. Seems like most of the novel is just a nightmare- his inability to shake the wretch.

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There’s plenty of background material to comment on. Geography. The Wollestonecraft relationships with artists and scientists. The books the Monster educates himself from. And there’s plenty on the interpersonal relationships and psychology. If you don’t think there’s a lot there for commentary, try reading the book again.

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Like an idiot, I thought they were mostly speculating about the practical aspects of monster building. Why don’t I just download it and see for myself? :slightly_smiling_face: